* </ul>
 *
 * <p>Consumers of this annotation include:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>Kotlin, for which it makes the type-variable usage (a) a Kotlin platform type when the type
 *       argument is non-nullable and (b) nullable when the type argument is nullable. We use this
 *       to "undo" {@link ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault}. It is the best we can do for Kotlin
 *       under our current constraints.
 *   <li>NullAway, which will <a

 */
@J2ktIncompatible
@GwtIncompatible
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault
public abstract class LinearTransformation {

  /**
   * Start building an instance which maps {@code x = x1} to {@code y = y1}. Both arguments must be
   * finite. Call either {@link LinearTransformationBuilder#and} or {@link
   * LinearTransformationBuilder#withSlope} on the returned object to finish building the instance.
   */

    String ancestorName = name.substring(substringFrom);

    return new InternetDomainName(ancestorName, ancestorParts);
  }

  /**
   * Creates and returns a new {@code InternetDomainName} by prepending the argument and a dot to
   * the current name. For example, {@code InternetDomainName.from("foo.com").child("www.bar")}
   * returns a new {@code InternetDomainName} with the value {@code www.bar.foo.com}. Only lenient

import javax.annotation.CheckForNull;
import org.checkerframework.checker.nullness.qual.Nullable;

/**
 * Provides utility methods for working with character streams.
 *
 * <p>Some of the methods in this class take arguments with a generic type of {@code Readable &
 * Closeable}. A {@link java.io.Reader} implements both of those interfaces. Similarly for {@code
 * Appendable & Closeable} and {@link java.io.Writer}.
 *
 * @author Chris Nokleberg

public final class Functions {
  private Functions() {}

  /**
   * A function equivalent to the method reference {@code Object::toString}, for users not yet using
   * Java 8. The function simply invokes {@code toString} on its argument and returns the result. It
   * throws a {@link NullPointerException} on null input.
   *
   * <p><b>Warning:</b> The returned function may not be <i>consistent with equals</i> (as

                     (which is good: our tests have intentional violations), but
                     Error Prone doesn't know it's building test code unless we
                     pass -XepCompilingTestOnlyCode, and that argument needs to
                     be passed as part of the same <arg> as -Xplugin:ErrorProne,
                     and I gave up trying to figure out how to do that for test
                     compilation only. -->

  private ExceptionTypePolicy policy = ExceptionTypePolicy.NPE_OR_UOE;

  public NullPointerTester() {
    try {
      /*
       * Converter.apply has a non-nullable parameter type but doesn't throw for null arguments. For
       * more information, see the comments in that class.
       *
       * We already know that that's how it behaves, and subclasses of Converter can't change that

    }
  }

  /**
   * Copies a collection of {@code Character} instances into a new array of primitive {@code char}
   * values.
   *
   * <p>Elements are copied from the argument collection as if by {@code collection.toArray()}.
   * Calling this method is as thread-safe as calling that method.
   *
   * @param collection a collection of {@code Character} objects

    if (delegate instanceof UnmodifiableMultimap || delegate instanceof ImmutableMultimap) {
      return delegate;
    }
    return new UnmodifiableMultimap<>(delegate);
  }

  /**
   * Simply returns its argument.
   *
   * @deprecated no need to use this
   * @since 10.0
   */
  @Deprecated
  public static <K, V> Multimap<K, V> unmodifiableMultimap(ImmutableMultimap<K, V> delegate) {
    return checkNotNull(delegate);

  }

  /**
   * Returns an array containing each value of {@code collection}, converted to a {@code double}
   * value in the manner of {@link Number#doubleValue}.
   *
   * <p>Elements are copied from the argument collection as if by {@code collection.toArray()}.
   * Calling this method is as thread-safe as calling that method.
   *
   * @param collection a collection of {@code Number} instances